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Prednisone is a corticosteroid. It can be used to treat sarcoidosis, autoimmune disease, and many other conditions.

Diseases treated by prednisone[change | change source]

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v t e Antidiarrheals, intestinal anti-inflammatory and anti-infective agents (A07)
Rehydration	Oral rehydration therapy
Intestinal anti-infectives	Antibiotics Amphotericin B Colistin Fidaxomicin Kanamycin Natamycin Neomycin Nystatin Paromomycin Polymyxin B Rifaximin Streptomycin Vancomycin Sulfonamides Phthalylsulfathiazole Succinylsulfathiazole Sulfaguanidine Imidazole Miconazole Nitrofuran Nifuroxazide Nifurzide Arsenical Acetarsol Oxyquinoline Broxyquinoline
Intestinal adsorbents	Charcoal Bismuth (including bismuth subsalicylate, known as Pepto-Bismol) Pectin Kaolin Crospovidone Attapulgite Diosmectite
Antipropulsives (opioids)	Opium tincture (laudanum) Codeine Morphine Camphorated opium tincture (paregoric) crosses BBB: Diphenoxylate (+atropine) Difenoxin does not cross BBB: Eluxadoline Loperamide^# (+simethicone)
Intestinal anti-inflammatory agents	corticosteroids acting locally Prednisolone^# Hydrocortisone Prednisone Betamethasone^# Tixocortol Budesonide Beclometasone antiallergic agents, excluding corticosteroids Cromoglicic acid Aminosalicylates Sulfasalazine Mesalazine Olsalazine Balsalazide
Antidiarrheal micro-organisms	Saccharomyces boulardii
Other antidiarrheals	Ceratonia Albumin tannate Bismuth subsalicylate Crofelemer Octreotide Racecadotril Kaopectate
^#WHO-EM ^‡Withdrawn from market Clinical trials: ^†Phase III ^§Never to phase III